That’s all fine and dandy until they misbehave and you can’t follow through by sending them to school on the weekend.
This is just one of the many examples of why parents today have grown so soft and refuse to give any true punishment to their children. Back in ye good old days when I was a wee lad I went to school 12 hours straight no breaks or anything and if I didn’t my dad broke a metal chair over my rear end. Then all the sudden the democrats took over and things suddenly got worse. Overall I think people should definitely toughen up and parent their kids more effectively if they want to defeat crooked B*den and make America great again.
Haha, very funny. I almost believed you were serious!
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You can’t convince me this isn’t an actual tweet
This almost feels like a shittymorph
Next you will tell us that the hill was up-school both ways.
This kid will start pushing this boundary in like 3 weeks (like every kid pushes every damn boundary all the time) and then OP will have a problem on their hands, when the kid decides that OP is toothless.
Sure, it’s called Boarding School.
You could try to make up some other shit to cover for it, how school told them that the kid needs to do chores at home for those two days or something. With their system it’d make sense to have a plan for this situation.
Or you just enjoy it while it lasts and drop it when it fails
At some point the kid will talk to other kids and find out they don’t attend school on weekends either. Unless they hate school that much that they don’t socialize with other kids which would be worrying as well
Then it’s time to gaslight the kid
“The other kids are lying to you”
This will help for a healthy development
I’d also tell the kid they’re imagining it
The only way to get my nephew to eat greens was to tell him that the green mash was made with green potatoes (instead of broccoli, and peas). When he realized that there were no such thing as green potatoes, he moved on instantly because kids aren’t fucking dwarfs carrying a book of grudges in which they record every single slight.
They’re kids, they move on.
He’ll be more annoyed about it later as an adult when grandma tells the story of the green potatoes for the 20th Christmas party in a row.
Or… you just don’t manipulate your kid.
I totally could send them to school on the weekend.
Saturday is when the schools around here typically have detention. I’ll just email the school and have the kid go to detention. Then on Sunday: Sunday school at a church.
follow through lies are always the solution 👍
This is what the passive income 1% crowd tell the rest of us.
How to be a shitty parent 101 and Wonder why your kid completely cuts you out of there life ASAP.
Bro if it gets the kid to go to school why would they care when they grow up
Lying to coerce a child into doing something they hate could be fine. But it also could be catastrophic. The proper* parenting move is obviously to figure out why the child doesn’t like going to school, and address that.
Bro its school. They are going to hate it
I’m a new parent. When the time comes I’m going to do my best to help them figure out how to enjoy school. I’m sure you will / would too when it comes came down to it.
You can either accept that as an inevitability, or try and figure out ways for your child to actually enjoy school. The latter makes you a better parent.
Because they were lied to unnecessarily.
The parent is trading long term trust and respect in their relationship for short term compliance. That should only be done in emergencies.
Its no different from telling a kid about santa to get them to behave.
Exactly, that’s why my parents didn’t do santa with me and I’m not doing it with my kids.
They’ll regret that.
Ten years later:
“My teenager has massive trust issues and won’t believe anything I say.”
surprised Pikachu face
This works until a Friday when the teacher says “see you on Monday” to the kids
“even the teacher knows I was a good boy”
Or on a Monday where the kid asks another student what the teacher said yesterday.
Oof, this is definitely a:
Every lie incurs a debt to the truth
Sort of thing. It’s not going to be fun when your child understands that there is no school on weekends, you’ll lose a lot of trust overnight with this.
Every kid survived the Santa lie.
The difference is none of this kid’s peers will have a similar experience
when your child understands that there is no school on weekends
“I did not lie to you, we just all as parents agreeded to make the same offering to our children”.
(it’s not even half lying; setting agreements as adults is what bulding a society is about)
It doesn’t matter whether it’s a “lie”, you’re still manipulating a child.
And it’s a fucking lie, too
Its lying. I mean i dont judge. If you want to teach your kid how to lie your way out of developing any spine, i dont wanna stop you. Not telling the whole truth can even be interpreted as lying.
It’s not a lie, you can always fill weekends with home school.
A lot of my coworkers actually do take their kids to a separate school on weekends. One of my coworkers said his parents did this to him and he hated it lol but he is really smart now though so 乁( •_• )ㄏ
I did after school tutoring on weekends, it’s not the worst thing that ever happened to me.
Good, kids need to stop believing every bullshit they hear. Critical thinking is in short supply these days.
It’s a parent’s job to be someone their kid can trust.
The kid will survive. Stop being so irrational about a thing the kid won’t even remember 2 years later.
Santa isn’t real, vast majority of kids have survived this misinformation.
It will be pretty obvious that you did this out of self interest. If you wanna teach your kid to lie themselves out of putting any effort, this is the way to do it. Its the only conclusion for your child that critical thinking will bring. No one will trust your kid to do any work, this means it will have to fend for itself. There will definitely corrective info from classmates, teachers, but by that time the damage is already done, and the only lesson that remains will be that your dad/mom is a terrible human beeing.
We’re talking about a 4 years old.
Stop projecting your unmedicated paranoia to 4 years old
What will happen is that they’ll figure it out, be mad for about 5 hours, and then have Dino nuggies for dinner and won’t remember any of it.
Kids are dumb.
well if you dont even manage to keep this stunt covered for a year then maybe you are just stupid for trying in the first place.
Mate it’s a small white lie to a 4 year old kid. It doesn’t matter if it’s uncovered in a year or less. Stop being so fucking dramatic and take your meds.
no thats the point. I genuinely think you might be unlucky enough that this lie stays with the kid for too long. might even reject other classmates attempts at clearing it out because your kid trusts you. Also critical thinking involves dividing facts from fiction, and you dont teach this by telling fiction. If thats a white lie i dont wanna see your actual lies.
My nephew asked me why all the old pictures in his great grandmother’s photo book were in black and white.
I told him that because back then they hadn’t invented colors yet, and that they had to invent green yellow and red because nobody could figure out the traffic lights.
He bought it, moved on. Later he learned the truth. He also learned to not believe everything an adult says. I can’t fool him with stuff like that nowadays.
Haha, it’s also something you have to learn, to be fair. You can’t just throw them to the logic wolves like a logic Spartan.
Yeah let’s start teaching them lies straight away
Not like they wouldn’t learn anyways. Learning to lie is an important part in development.
Teaching them that lying is totally cool, even about seemingly important things (to the child, anyways) will only teach them wrong lessons about lying.
“Dad lied to me all the time. Now I’m politician!”
Not if you’re a Vulcan!
No Santa for your kids, I suppose
I’m not planning to teach my kid to believe in fairy tales.
Ideally not
santa is haram. Only jesus is allowed.
That’s going to backfire one day.
RIP child’s trust.
Not to mention, I mean…other kids talk about how they don’t go to school on those days? Now, yes, I am a super sleuth and a genius, but I’m starting to get the inkling that there’s some fishy, dubious lies going on here.
When younger, my parents made me believe in Santa Claus. Most other kids were believing in it too, and I was getting more Christmas present. So it was cool and fair, even if not true.
But here, the person is lying to his kid to get away with something. Not cool.
But no one else is lying to their kids about this. So the game would be up pretty quick when any other kid in school talks about the weekend. Which…they all will.
What age are kids in ‘pre-k’? I’m imagining like 3-4 years old? I wouldn’t be surprised at that working with some kids that age. Not saying I think the story is true necessarily, but just that young kids are very trusting, don’t always put together information they get in different settings, and don’t really discuss weekend plans with each other much.
Why should someone on the Internet lie? nobody does this. /s
4 years olds according to Lemmy: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/887/981/2cf.jpg
Actual 4 years old: Dying a slow and painful death because they don’t have their favorite Dino nuggie shape on their plate.
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doing this is going to make your children hate you when they grow up, have fun with that. you deserve it for being a shit parent
I genuinely think shit like this is what promotes antisocial behavior in children. As in clinically antisocial, not just a synonym for introverted.
Children learn hundreds of new words and new things every week. That’s their entire purpose in life at that age.
Deliberately lying to them about how basic reality works for extended periods of time is likely what causes the neural short circuits of religion and conservatism.
You’re teaching your kid to manipulate others to get what they want. Fuck that.
Naw, religion and conservatism are just the easy answers people arrive at when they fail to resolve all of the dissonance on their own with a child’s brain.
The reason people hold those views in to adulthood is quite simply because they are still mentally children. They are underdeveloped losers that society has not yet decided are a problem quite literally on the same level as other developmental issues.
Yeah. I honestly think it’s also a fuckup to treat children totally differently from adults. Probably around age 7 they start noticing it and a lot of people resent that treatment.
Thats how kids are supposed to be treated. They’re not adults
Underestimating your own children never ends well.
Yes, you’re the one who needed this comment. Your kids know you’re condescending to them and it’s only a matter of time before they act out because of the damage this is doing to them
So, what’s the difference? Adults spend 8 hours someplace they don’t want to be for the betterment of their future, meanwhile kids spend 8 hours someplace they don’t want to be for the betterment of the future…
Both eat, drink, sleep, feel, have relationships and responsibilities.
The main difference is one cannot call your bullshit till it grows older and trust me, if you lie, bend the truth and basically abuse your kid, it will bring consequences.
For me it’s absolute lack of faith into anything anyone says, no matter how close to me they are. For some it’s closing their minds and ignoring the problem. For others, it may lead to fighting against liars - their parents.
So yeah, please commit to keeping that opinion buried somewhere where it cannot create pain for others.
Only difference is children don’t understand that or made the choice.
I think this is another case of a joke that people have taken seriously. There’s no chance this would work in reality. It just makes for a funny hypothetical.
Idk how to tell you but there are people in here that think this is a good idea. If it is all sarcasm then thank god, but i doubt it is, since they are arguing it.
I guess for some people the dumber you are the more impressed you are with your own ability to fool a child. Probably because that’s the last stage of their child’s life where they can still pretend to be smarter…
wow, even a 4 year old knows that schools are bullshit.
Yup. Education is not their goal. It’s crime prevention.
You can get your ass beat in school the other guy gets detention. Its a prison.
Education is crime prevention. What a lot of schools are doing is teaching you how to be a good obedient slave that runs to class at the sound of a bell, never questions the teacher, & is silent and diligent in their work
You can get your ass beat in school the other guy gets detention.
The other guy goes home happy.
If you fight back, you get beaten by teachers, then your parents get called and harassed and then you are made to understand that you need to shut up and get beaten whenever someone feels like it.Yup. Education is not their goal. It’s crime prevention.
Look up the “school to prison pipeline” anyone who doesn’t blindly follow the program is sent to a shitty school and then if they ask questions about the rules then everything they say is a “threat”
Maybe this is fun now. It won’t be later tho
I can’t imagine there’s never a scenario where the teacher says “See you Monday,” on a Friday. I think this is fiction.
There is always sunday school.
No one: Me telling my kid there is sunday school:
